Federoff v. Ewing’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018 · most notably 235 Mich. App. 118 - Rembert v. Ryan’s Family Steak Houses, Inc (1999), 57 Ill. 2d 590 - People Ex Rel. Baylor v. Highway Insurance (1974)
7 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Contracts contrary to public policy, that is those which tend to be injurious to the public or against the public good, are illegal and void, even though actual injury does not result therefrom.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The test to be applied is not what is actually done, but that which may or might be done under the terms of the contract; it is the evil tendency of the contract and not its actual injury to the public in a particular instance. The law looks to the general tendency of such agreements, and it closes the door to temptation by refusing them recognition in any of its courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.